That was a joke. Our site and many others have explicit ways to get a non-ajax URL for sharing, but it is of course more convenient and more natural in a browser to just grab from the URL bar. It's unfortunate for us but not remotely unexpected.

This is where I'd expect the <link rel="canonical" href="blah" /> element to be used. With browsers using this as the preferred url for a bookmark - and maybe a service for sharing or copying urls from the browser that was easy to use.

That would break bookmarking a section of a long article.